http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Contradictory or not? en Sun, 17 May 2026 13:53:21 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11415#post-129412 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:06:06 +0000 gembo 129412@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah, Arobcomp not having much luck with the muckment </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11415#post-129409 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:48:28 +0000 Instography 129409@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Saw two people this evening, both with fairly low-slung trousers and short jackets getting their back and crack sprayed with road crud along Melville Street, all for the want of mudguards. Only one was on a short-barred fixie. I can appreciate that mudguards may not be cool but neither is the muffin-top builder's look, especially not when soaking wet and filthy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11415#post-129406 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:40:20 +0000 Uberuce 129406@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Gembo, no, I refer to an EdinbURGH incident before the weekend where he got liberally sprayed with doshgit in a local park while training for the weekend. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11415#post-129399 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:56:36 +0000 DaveC 129399@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have some Endura w/proof shorts. They are ok, in the wet in summer but I tend to sweat in them. I also have lighter w/proof Goretex (TM) trousers I wear more though.</p> <p>As for guards, I have them on all my bikes 365 days a year. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11415#post-129389 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:31:26 +0000 gembo 129389@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I saw some of those impressive shots, but think he may have gotten a little muddy even without fenders. In his defence, you mentioned he was on specialized tricross, which is bike I use with mudguards but I could not cycle it in mud. No way. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11415#post-129387 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:25:35 +0000 Uberuce 129387@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>ARobComp of this parish recently demonstrated the need for mudguards on CX training rides. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11415#post-129386 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:23:42 +0000 gembo 129386@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Two in a row of good kapturik points (rucksacks on drop handled bikes not good for seeing helmet lights and mudguards good for guarding against mud). Important to get the essentials established early. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11415#post-129384 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:19:50 +0000 kaputnik 129384@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Prevention or cure?</p> <p>I got wet today, but it was just water from the sky and not road crud.</p> <p>There's enough dog t*** on the paths of Edinburgh to make guards a good health and safety requirement on a drizzly day. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11415#post-129383 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:18:11 +0000 gembo 129383@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That is how I roll too, the getting wet I mean but definitely liked the look of the goretex shorts </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11415#post-129381 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:15:06 +0000 Uberuce 129381@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am one of the you're-not-made-from-sugar-just-get-wet camp, but I still use full mudguards to save my clothes from greasy road muck. To quote Spike in Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: from beneath you, it devours.</p> <p>I am of the opinion that the probabilistic certainty of some drivers having passed their test without ever having seen suboptimal conditions needs shutting down asap.</p> <p>In the meantime, I take it easy to account for them, disc/hub/fixed braking systems be damned. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11415#post-129377 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:58:05 +0000 gembo 129377@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I came up to Lothian road from grass market this pm. Chap at lights had some nifty goretex shorts on leggings and overshoes. However, he was running slick tyres and no mudguard. So he was quite wet at the rear. Now some say, he is waterproof so being wet is no problem, but I say why not get a mudguard? He knew the sequence and went far out into Lothian road whilst light still red, personally I wait for amber. At the next junction he jumped at amber and was almost taken out by a van going through red the other way. All in a lot of rain. Personally, I like to take it easy in wet conditions, my brakes being less responsive.</p> <p>These are just my prejudices but looked like he had spent a bit on the shorts and would be a shame for them to get wasted. </p>